Job Description

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That’s why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
Role Purpose: This position is within the Independent Compliance Testing (ICT) team, which performs 2nd line of defense testing across American Express products and portfolio segments. ICT conducts risk-based Compliance Reviews to assess compliance with laws, regulations, and policy impacting diverse American Express products and services. This role will be responsible for designing and creating system-assisted testing to support ICT reviews and requires a balance of compliance risk management with data and programming skills. Responsibilities:

• The primary responsibility will be performing system-assisted compliance testing and testing design, including ad hoc analysis, on American Express systems.
• Providing analytical support in the evaluation of various general credit, underwriting, customer management, and compliance-related policies and banking regulations.
• Building transactional testing capabilities for the bank and continuously following up on exceptions generated through this capability.
• Working with business partners to identify and evaluate means of new system-assisted testing for ICT reviews
• Effectively utilize and promote disciplined project methodologies to facilitate the design, implementation, and control of system testing projects.
• Potentially support special projects, compile data and prepare reports for senior management and other personnel.
• Maintain necessary records and files to assure efficient and consistent reporting of compliance efforts.
• Collaborating with risk, compliance, and business partners across multiple groups to ensure adherence to Bank policy and banking laws and regulations.
• The position will interface regularly with business partners, examiners/auditors, and third-party vendors.

Minimum Qualifications:

• The qualified individual will have minimum 6 years of experience

• Demonstrated proficiency using SQL, a variety of databases, and comfort and ease in accurately manipulating large datasets
• Proficiency with Hive / HQL, Python, Jupyter notebooks, Spark
• Familiarity with High Density File Systems (Big Data) such as Hadoop, and the tools required to import, export, and work with big data environments
• Experience with Teradata and UNIX is desired
• Proficiency with statistical methods and analysis
• Strong analytical and project management skills, with a track record of driving results and problem solving.
• Excellent organization, prioritization and collaboration skills are a must.
• The candidate should be a highly motivated self-starter able to operate on multiple fronts with careful attention to detail
• Undergraduate Degree in a quantitative field or equivalent work experience is required

Critical factors to success:

• Possess strong interpersonal, leadership and change management skills, as well as strong presentation and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Be self-motivated, dependable, adaptable and detail oriented with a proven ability to work independently or within a team environment as required
• Have a demonstrated ability to think conceptually, using strong analytical skills
• Be able to explore and deduce comprehension of new unfamiliar datasets
• Possess a strong understanding of bank systems and processes; strong computer knowledge; excellent MS Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint skills
• Experience with machine learning algorithms preferred
• Knowledge of IBM mainframe is desired but not required
• CRCM, CIA, CAMS, CPA or related designation/certification is helpful but not required

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